Portfolio Associate

About Antler

Antler is the investor backing the world's most driven founders, from day zero to greatness. Founded on the belief that people innovating is the key to building a better future, we partner with people across six continents to launch and scale high-potential startups that address meaningful opportunities and challenges. Knowing that exceptional founders can come from anywhere with any background, we have offices in 23 cities, including Austin, New York, London, Berlin, Stockholm, Bangalore, Jakarta, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo, and Sydney. Our global community backs people from the beginning with co-founder matching, deep business model validation, initial capital, expansion support, and follow-on funding. Fueled by a personal passion that goes beyond traditional investing, we have helped create and invested in more than 600 startups across a wide range of industries and technologies, with the goal of backing more than 6,000 by 2030.

A better future won't happen automatically—the world needs talented, determined, and resilient people to build it. Antler team members are part of an ambitious global community dedicated to helping the most driven founders move the world forward. We ease the path to entrepreneurship so more exceptional people can launch and scale companies that disrupt the status quo, create employment, contribute to GDP, and drive technology development and adoption. As the world presents an ever-increasing number of opportunities and challenges, founders are more needed than ever to address them. Join us to support them and help make progress inevitable.

Portfolio Associate Role (London, UK)

The Portfolio team is responsible for the support, management and ongoing investment of our portfolio in the UK. This includes supporting the portfolio companies to succeed (fundraising, operations, hiring, etc.) through better systems, processes, and tools, as well as hands-on support.

Responsibilities

• Help create and manage best practice processes across Portfolio Management
• Supporting portfolio companies to fundraise through readiness (pitch deck review, fundraising strategy, introductions, liaising with VCs and other investors, support with term sheets, etc.) You will see the fundraising process from start to finish.
• Preparing portfolio reviews at the end of each quarter with the portfolio team to understand and present to the team on how the companies are performing.
• Helping preparation of quarterly investor reporting about portfolio company updates and tractions
• Helping to ensure we're connected to, and have a relationship with, the leading VCs globally.
• Knowledge sharing with the VC ecosystem, such as on seed fundraising and how to scale a company.
• Research on market trends and opportunities for Antler Intelligence.
• Working with the tech team to further develop our internal and external facing Antler tech platforms, for founder, investors, advisors, and Antler staff. For example, automating introductions.
• Track portfolio KPIs and metrics and share with the team regularly.
• Own these databases (visible, affinity, notion) and ensure, with the team, it is up-to-date.
• Helping upskill Antler teams and portfolio on VC terms and know-how.

Requirements

• Entrepreneurial mindset, comfortable with quick changes, tight deadlines, ambiguity, and willingness to support the growth of Antler
• Highly organized and able to structure and execute multiple processes simultaneously
• Independent and proactive with a focus on execution
• Comfortable with quick changes, tight deadlines and ambiguity
• Highly collaborative approach and influencing skills
• Flexible, comfortable with ambiguity and willingness to support across the growth of Antler
• High level of ambition to which will translate to building the DNA of Antler as a world class company
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to write and speak in a structured and articulate manner
• Passion for entrepreneurship and believe the world needs more change-makers and innovators
• Results-oriented and outstanding personal commitment to setting and achieving lofty goals
• Accomplished and structured problem-solver

What we offer

• Create a legacy and have a large impact: be part of building hundreds of disruptive companies across UK and global that will define the next wave of tech
• Be part of a highly qualified and hardworking team and a global firm that is growing rapidly
• Opportunity to work in Venture Capital and build a track-record in investment and early-stage company formation
• Build experience in supporting early-stage companies with direct portfolio ownership
• Opportunity to impact the direction and success of the companies you are working with
• Going forward, the opportunity to take larger responsibilities within Antler, on the investment side, the portfolio side, or taking a larger pan-regional or global role